It's like Tolkein's garage full of Middle Earth notes, only everyone has access to it in real time.

The best thing to do is to jump immediately into Fellowship after reading The Hobbit (which I would recommend to everyone) while the interest in Middle Earth is still fresh. If you can make it past Tom Bombadil, you'll probably be able to enjoy the rest of the series.

I was glad I had to read them for AP English, my teacher loved them. I remember the second book and first half of the third book being pretty engaging page turners. But the first and second half of the third were quite difficult reads. I've made at least two good faith attempts to read the Silmarillon, but never got…

Tolkien is an interesting example. I think the LOTR movies got people interested in his world, but his books, other than The Hobbit, aren't necessarily the most engaging reading.

Harry Potter was my first fandom. It came out in when I was in fifth grade so I basically grew up with the series. While I never went to midnight releases or dressed up or anything, I obsessed over the books when they came out, and developed an intriacate knowledge of their contents. It was the first item of pop…

It's my favorite book too. It has the best character development of the series, it introduced one of the best characters, Luna and one of the best (and most realistic) villains, Umbridge, and it does the most extensive world building in the series.

Well the defense attorneys engaged to represent him in this matter actually are acting fulfilling their ethical obligations as a member of the legal profession. But the publicists are probably shameless.

Well, for lawyers they actually do. There's a professional (ethical) obligation there to defend someone if they've hired you. While lawyers can choose cases and can decide to withdraw in certain instances it's actually an ethical norm, particularly in criminal law, to represent the unpopular. If a private criminal…

Not as gross as wondering whether sex toys are alive in this universe.

While short phrases can quickly convey a message, they're also way to easily adaptable. But unfortunately, people's attention span is too short for an accurate description like: "Poorly formated WordPress sites which have no working links, use stock photos, and refer to people, places, and events that don't actually…

I suppose I can't argue because this was the first Mel Brooks movie I saw, at age 11 or 12 I think, and I do love it. But I'd like to think I'd love it even if those conditions didn't apply.

It was the only one. Just the canon and Galaxy Quest.

"'Pizza? Never heard of it.' Is what they'll be saying twenty years from now."

Just the Lo-Cal Calzone Zone.

Ben winking at the camera as he goes back into the accountant calzone party is one of my favorite moments in the series.

Yeah. Hamilton dissenting kind of surprised me. But like I alluded to earlier, SCOTUS might give them the benefit on this one because it's so rare to get a writ generally and this Circuit isn't known for giving them out too much like the Sixth and the Ninth so there isn't a message they need to send them to stop.

I was thinking about that, but I'm going to take a wait and see approach because I'm still an optimist for some reason. Maybe he'll pull a Souter!

Prediction: En Banc review denied. Supreme Court denies review because this isn't a habeas case from the Ninth or Sixth Circuits, and Alito/Thomas dissent from the denial of cert.

It seems like Gawker employed a bunch of people who couldn't cut it anywhere else on skill, so they built a reputation as loveable rogues compared to the stodgy mainstream media. But because they sucked they couldn't even do that well.

I would assume so too, although to be pendantic, I did not check if they were alleging exactly $75000 in damages or they added some West Virgina defendant somehow…